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Doctor Who uberfan and Sherlock co-creator Mark Gatiss is creator, writer and, for the first time in his career, lead actor in new murder mystery Bookish, where he plays gay antique book store owner Gabriel Book, who solves crimes while living in a 'lavender' marriage with a woman, Trottie (Polly Walker) Set in the post-World[...]

Mark Gatiss is one of the MVPs of modern Doctor Who and much of 21st-century British television Not only was he one of the key figures and writers from the 1990s Doctor Who fandom, out of which emerged Russell T Davies, Steven Moffat, and David Tennant, but he has also written scripts for the modern revival of[...]

They included Paul Cornell, Mark Gatiss, and future showrunners Davies and Steven Moffat Davies' first and only novel was a Virgin "The New Adventures" novel, "Damaged Goods," which takes place in a South London estate and features a family named the Tylers It contained a darker, adult tone but also the early version of many[...]

Mark Gatiss is a very busy man: he's the writer and star of the upcoming 1940s detective series Bookish and currently playing Sir John Gielgud in The Crown creator Peter Morgan's play The Motive and the Cue in London's West End, where he has won Best Actor at the Olivier Awards He's known for many[...]

Mark Gatiss will write and star in Bookish, a new detective drama for British crime channel Alibi. Gatiss, best known for co-creating Sherlock with Steven Moffat, writing for and occasionally guest-starring on Doctor Who, and various genre projects for British television, will star as the "erudite and unconventional" Gabriel Book, who helps the police to solve[...]

Sherlock co-creator and Doctor Who expert, fan, and writer Mark Gatiss has the honour of writing the ghost stories at Christmas at the BBC, and this year it's an adaptation of a short story by Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Lot No 249.  The supernatural tale stars Kit Harington from that show you[...]

249, this year's Ghost Story for Christmas on the BBC, adapted by Mark Gatiss from the short story by Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Lot No 249.  The supernatural tale also stars Freddie Fox from Slow Horses as – what else? – a posh douchebag who's responsible for unleashing an Egyptian mummy as posh Victorian douchebags[...]

Mark Gatiss' adaptation of the Arthur Conan Doyle short story comes to BBC Two this Christmas, starring Kit Harington from that show you keep talking about and Freddie Fox from Slow Horses. "Lot No 249": BBC "1881 Old College, Oxford, plays host to three very different young academics: Abercrombie Smith (Harington), a model of Victorian manhood, clean of[...]

It starred Jason Flemyng as Bernard Quatermass with Mark Gatiss, Indira Varma, and David Tennant and was shown on BBC4 to half a million viewers Russell T Davies' first season of Doctor Who had also premiered on BBC One that year. "Filmed live with a fantastic ensemble cast, The Quatermass Experiment takes a sci-fi cult classic[...]

is a time for ghost stories, especially on the BBC, and often adapted by Literature and genre fanboy Mark Gatiss, so this year, it's going to be Lot No 249, the classic supernatural story by Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Oh, and it's going to star Kit Harington, and even though he won't[...]

And Jessica Raine played Verity Lambert, the first producer of Doctor Who back in 1963 and often considered one of the co-creators of the show, in Mark Gatiss' 50th Anniversary special An Adventure in Space and Time Doctor Who is a vortex around which virtually all British TV drama circles at this point, even grimdark[...]

We heard that Mark Gatiss' direction of the production has the actors find moments of wordless, visual comedy in their gestures and body language. "The Unfriend" cover art: Nick Hern Books Peter and Debbie Lindel meet the loud, outgoing, and very American Elsa Jean Krakowski (a British person's stereotypical idea of an American name) on a holiday[...]

Actor and screenwriter Mark Gatiss tweeted that he found a "lost" script for the BBC's Doctor Who that he wrote ages ago Now it would appear that Big Finish Productions will be producing it as an audio drama… if they get enough retweets about it. Mark Gatiss in "Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time", still courtesy[...]

But could the long-running series also see the return of yet another familiar face? Based on what writer and actor Mark Gatiss had to say during an interview with the Radio Times, it sounds like the door's just waiting for Gatiss to open. Doctor Who – Image: BBC Speaking with RT to promote the Target book novelization[...]

It is the same policy that has caused a large number of episodes of Doctor Who and various other classic TV shows to be lost. Mark Gatiss and Adrian Scarborough in "The Road" by Nigel Kneale, adapted by Toby Hadoke, BBC The Legacy of Nigel Kneale: Why are we talking about a lost 45-minute one-off play, you[...]

We've gathered a truly stellar list of writers and illustrators, who have contributed their time and creativity for a wonderful cause. "Doctor Who and BBC Children in Need are a powerful combination, and Adventures in Lockdown is a book that celebrates the best of the Whoniverse – which is to say, the best in all of[...]

Monday to Saturday. — Speedy's Cafe (@speedyscafe) September 24, 2020 Does anybody want to buy Sherlock's cafe? And if Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss, Benedict Cumberbatch and Mertin Freeman ever film another series… you'll be right in the thick of it. It comes to a surprise to some people that BBC's Sherlock is not filmed at 221B Baker[...]

Many from across the industry paid tribute to the late actress from Edgar Wright, Mark Gatiss, Stephen Merchant, Dana Delany, and several of her Game of Thrones costars. Diana Rigg as Lady Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones Image Courtesy of WarnerMedia Be a dragon.The realm will always remember Diana Rigg. — Game of Thrones (@GameOfThrones) September 10,[...]

Also including videos with Mark Millar, Alice Cooper, William Shatner, Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss, Chris Claremont, Duncan Jones, Leigh Balch, Run DMC, Gerard Way, Ben Aaronovitch, Michael Moorcock, Simon Pegg, V.E.Schwab, Brian Bolland, Dave Gibbons and more So… what else were you going to do with your weekend? And there's plenty of Behind The Scenes interviews[...]

Forbidden Planet is about to celebrate its 42nd birthday and Sherlock Holmes, Draculs and Doctor Who's Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss have been video-interviewed with Forbidden Planet and Titan Comics' Andrew Sumner, going live at forbiddenplanet.com/fp42 on Saturday, August 29th But first, we have Steven and Mark talking about their early impressions of the store, and the[...]

After soliciting questions from the Twitterverse earlier in the day, Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss, and Sue Vertue took the time to answer ten questions selected by the video panels host/moderator, Louis Moffat. A look at Mycroft and Sherlock (Image: BBC) Over the course of ten questions, the trio cover a lot of ground when it comes to[...]

No, we're talking about July 25, 2020: the day that Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss' Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman-starring take on Sherlock first entered our television lives To mark the occasion (which also happens to fall nicely in the middle of Comic-Con@Home), fans have been taking to social media with #10YearsOfSherlock to show that[...]

And as the Dalek breaks loose, the Doctor is brought back to the brutality and desperation of his darkest hours spent fighting the creatures of Skaro… this time with the Earth as their battlefield. Mark Gatiss will write an adaptation of his 11th Doctor adventure The Crimson Horror, 'We must get to the bottom of this[...]

Joining the livetweet will be writer-actor Mark Gatiss and actor Sacha Dhawan, who played the director of the first episode of Doctor Who, Waris Hussein, and now plays The Master on the current version of the series. Doctor Who: An Adventure in Space and Time Rewatch Artwork, courtesy of BBC. Learn the Not-So-Secret Origin of Doctor Who Doctor[...]

While details on the event will be rolled out over the next several days, Fantom is set to stream a mix of archival interviews as well as brand-new material, including discussions with Mark Gatiss, Nicola Bryant, Katy Manning, Ian Hallard, and many more among others Time Space Visualiser will have heavy social media interaction with[...]

It's tough to argue that the BBC gave Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat's limited series Dracula a definitive ending when you're talking about a character who has a habit of coming back to life Which raises the obvious question about the three-episode series: so when are we getting a second season? While nothing's moving forward[...]

…And it was all going so well. Stephen Moffat and Mark Gatiss' adaptation of Dracula has been campy, goofy and still horrific The first two episodes were knowing deconstructions of the Gothic Horror genre and an update at the same time They delved into the subtexts of taboo, sexual terror, homo- or poly-eroticism more overtly than[...]

I rather enjoyed the BBC adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula by Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss and Sue Vertue – now on Netflix Well, the first two episodes at least, and I gasped at the cliffhanger at the end of the second episode But would I have been happier if I had stopped there? Probably. I thoroughly[...]

With Steven Moffat (Doctor Who) and Mark Gatiss' (Sherlock) highly-anticipated BBC/Netflix co-production Dracula premiering as part of the BBC's New Year's Day programming schedule, we have a new Netflix trailer (airing on the streamer beginning this weekend) for the Claes Bang (The Girl in the Spider's Web)-starrer as well as a few treats for BBC viewers. Over[...]

Tonight, we got the second episode of BBC One's Dracula adaptation, based on Bram Stoker's classic novel, from Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss and Sue Vertue But how 'based' is it? Certainly, there is plenty taken from the original novel, rearranged a bit, and with a few notable and broadly welcomed – and squeed over –[...]